MEDIA ADVISORY
For September 21, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Sept. 8, 2009)
CONTACT: Don Goncalves
dgoncalves@tizinc.com
1-781-793-9380

WHEN: Monday, 21 September, 2009
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m., Central Time

WHERE: Fire Rescue Canada 2009
The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs’ 2009 Conference
The Fairmont Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba

WHO:

Captain Robert Kirkpatrick of Mississauga, Ontario, President of the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation

Bill Sokol, Vice President, Global Strategic Marketing, Sperian Fire

WHAT: Sperian Fire will donate C$50,000 to the Canadian Fallen Fighters Foundation on behalf of the nation’s fallen fire heroes and their families. The donation will be made by Sperian Fire as part of its program to promote the honor, sacrifice, and memory of firefighters who have perished in the line of duty.

WHY: Sperian Fire is collecting and documenting the appreciation and memories of firefighters for their fallen brothers and sisters in a web-based Memorial Book for Fallen Firefighters at www.sperianfire.com.

As part of the effort, Sperian Fire is donating funding—in the names of those who have signed the Book—to the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in the U.S.

Everyone who signs the Memorial Book at www.sperianfire.com is demonstrating their support for their country’s fallen firefighters and the families they left behind. There’s no request for a financial donation—only an invitation to share their emotional support and less than a minute of their time. Signers can offer words of encouragement and remember individual fallen comrades, friends, and family members.

The donation will be the largest the CFFF has ever received. The donation will also be the largest charitable gift in Sperian Fire’s history.

Sperian Fire (formerly Survivair, Biosystems and Securitex) is a division of Sperian Protection – a world leader in personal protective equipment. The Sperian Fire Group (www.sperianfire.com) offers high performance respiratory gear, action ready protective apparel, and instrumentation for firefighting and emergency services. Well-known products include the Warrior™ SCBA, Sperian Ultramotion^® and Vectra SL™gear, Sperian Pathfinder™, and the Biosystems PosiChek3® SCBA Test Bench.

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Public Relations contact, Boston: Tiziani Whitmyre Inc., http://www.tizinc.com/public-relations

Tags: Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs' 2009 Conference, Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation, fallen firefighters, Memorial Book for Fallen Firefighters, Sperian Fire